Package wrapper



Aug. 14, 1934. R. F. WALL 1,970,349-

PACKAGE WRAPPER Filed Oct. 11, 1933 Patented 'Aug. 14, 1934 UNITED STATES rabxAGE WRAPPER Raymond F. Wall, Greenvllle. Miss.

Application October 11 2 Claims.

My present invention relates generally to wrappers for commodity packages whose purposes are to enclose and preserve the commodity contents until such time as they are used or consumed, and in such manner that at the time of use or consumption, the contents may be reached and withdrawn with minimum difliculty.

More particularly, my invention relates to a package wrapper which, while useful in connection with various commodity contents, is especially desirable, and primarily proposed, in connection with cigarettes as ordinarily packaged with a soft wrapper, having as a part thereof a layer of tin foil to prevent too ready drying of l the contents.

I Such packages, it is well known, include co-ex tensive tin foil and paper layers, of rectangular outlines, the body portions of which form the front, back and sides of the package and have 80 extensions at the edges thereof, the extensions of the sides being first folded inwardly toward one another across the ends of the cigarettes, and the extensions of the front and back being then folded inwardly in overlapping relation onto the $5 folded side extensions.

The package thus generally outlined, must be torn open, and it is awkward to do so, especially where, as is usual, the cigarettes are to be removed one at a time. It is the primary object of my invention to so form the wrapper that provision is made for the ready formation of a dispensing aperture, without adding separate parts to the wrapper, and without necessitating a perforations or otherwise weakening the wrapper. i

In furtherance of the above objects, my invention involves the cutting of a blank different from the usual blank, so that in the finished package it is simply necessary to pull out a freely removable and partially exposed tab in order to form a dispensing aperture, which tab may be further pulled to tear away one side of the package should it be desired to remove the contents as a whole at one time.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates my invention, and forms a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete package.

Figure 2 is a similar view with the package open for the individual removal of the cigarettes.

Figure 3 is a front elevation of the complete package, partly broken away and in section.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the wrapper,

5i removed, and,

, 1933. Serial No. 693, (Cl. 229-51) Figure 5 is a plan view of the blank.

Referring now to these figures, I have, for the purposes of illustration, shown my improved wrapper in connection with a well-known type of cigarette package wherein the cigarettes and the enclosing wrapper are disposed within. an exterior cup-shaped paper casing 10, open at its top. The cigarettes and wrapper are seated downwardly in the casing 10, and although the folded top of the wrapper is exposed, it is retained in the casing by the usual revenue stamp represented at 11 in Figure 3, which is pasted across the folded top of the wrapper with its ends adhering to the front and rear portions of the casing.

According to my invention, the wrapper, generally indicated at 12 and best shown in Figures 4 and 5, consists of a blank comprising a rectangular sheet of paper 13 and a coextensive sheet of tin foil 14. The wrapper provides a centrally located portion 15 which forms the front of the package, and portions 16 and 17 which overlap one another at the back of the package. Between the front and rear portions are the relatively narrow side portions 18 and 19 which form the sides of the package.

Along the-upper and lower edges of the wrapper blank, and above and below the front, sideand back portions just mentioned, are the infolding portions which form the top and bottom of the finished wrapper. These infolding portions, which are extensions 15a, 16a, 17a, 18a and 190, respectively of the front, rear and side portions above mentioned, are ordinarily continuous along the edges of the wrapper blank, the side extensions 18a and 19a, being first folded toward one another onto the cigarette ends, and the extensions 150, 16a, and 170 being then similarly folded in overlapping relation over the folded extensions 18a and 19a, as will be evident from a comparison of Figures 1, 2 and 3 with Figure 4.

In the present instance, however, I propose to cut the blank of the wrapper 12, with an elongation 20 on one of the side extensions 19a at the top of the wrapper, so proportioned that when folded upon itself as in Figure 4, in line with the free edges of the adjacent extensions, the wrapper may be folded as usual, and as above described, and a tab will be formed whose end will project beyond one side of the wrapper and may be bent downward a short distance to provide against interference with other packages and yet allow the user to readily grasp the same.

In order that the elongated tab 20 in the completed wrapper shown in Figures 1 and 3, may be freely pulled from beneath the overlapping folded extensions 15a'and 17a, the extension 190 of which it is an integral part, is separated from the adjacent extensions 15a and 17a by V-shaped cut out portions 21 (Figure 5). Thus the tab may be freely withdrawn, also withdrawing the extension 19a, to the upper end of the side 19, and either torn off at said end as in full lines in Figure 2, where the cigarettes are to be individually removed, or pulled downwardly so as to tear away a considerable portion of the side 19, if it is desired to fully open the wrapper for removal of all of the cigarettes at one time, as when they are to be transferred to a pocket case or humidor.

The importance of my present improvement is that the only change over the ordinary wrapper is in the cutting of the blank. After the elongation 20 is folded back upon itself or rather upon the extensionl9a, the usual folding to form the package may be proceeded with in the usual way. In doing so the extension 19a and its tab 20 are covered by the overlapping extensions 15:: and 17a in ample degree to avoid danger of their accidental displacement.

It is plain that when the tab 20 is withdrawn, as above described, the flexible extension 19a rolls outwardly with it, and thus a triangular aperture is easily formed in the top of the package, as shown in Figure 2, through which the cigarettes may be conveniently withdrawn.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is,

1. A package wrapper of the type having front,

. side and back portions and flexible extensions of said portions folded at the upper end of the package to form end closing flaps, with the front and rear flaps overlapping one another above portions of the side flaps and leaving openings at the sides of the package end normally covered by the underlying side extensions, one of said extensions at the side of the package having side cuts freeing the same from the other extensions and also having an elongated portion bent back thereon and extending beyond the adjacent side of the package, forming a pull tab, held in place by the folded extensions thereabove and freely slidable from beneath said extensions by a pull upon the tab to uncover one of said openings and thus form a dispensing aperture in the top of the package without tearing any portion of the wrapper.

2. A blank for package wrappers having front, back and side forming portions and having extensions therealong of said portions which, when folded, form the end closing flaps of the package, the extensions of the front, back and one side portion being integrally Joined and the extensions of the other side portion having cuts at its opposite sides freeing the same from the adjacent extensions and of such width that the out side extension in the folded position normally covers an "opening left by the front and back extensions folded thereabove, said out side extension also having an elongated portion integral therewith and which, when bent back upon said extension and folded with the other end closing flaps, forms a pull tab freely withdrawable to uncover the,

' said opening and thus form a dispensing aperture without tearing any portion of the folded extensions.

RAYMOND F. WALL. 

